WP3 Capital transmission in local ecologies

Work Package 3: Capital Transmission in Local Ecologies – Education, Community Socialisation and Intergenerational Exchange

Lead institutions: University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD, Wales) and University of Teacher Education Carinthia (PHK, Austria)
Supporting institutions: University of Warsaw (UW, Poland), University of Oslo (Norway) and Linguapax, Naja Szkòła and Ruska Bursa-Lemko social organization.

Work Package 3 focuses on how languages are transmitted through education, family life, and community networks. It examines how schools, teachers, and local communities can work together to support multilingualism and strengthen minoritised and endangered languages.

WP3 explores how educational policies, teacher training, and community practices can help keep languages alive across generations. The team collects best practices from different regions of Europe and develops practical recommendations for multilingual education, teacher support, and family-based language learning.

Through collaboration with educators, parents, and community leaders, WP3 promotes the idea that languages are not only learned in classrooms, but lived, shared, and celebrated in everyday life.

WP3 is led by Prof Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones (UWTSD), Daniel Wutti (PHK), with support of Prof. Agnieszka Otwinowska-Kasztelanic.